Hotel-indicator



(No Model.)

C. S. PETERS;

HOTEL INDICATOR.

No. 431,726. Patented July 8, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES S. PETERS, OF SIOUX CITY, IOWVA.

HOTEL-INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,725, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed October 31, 1889. 'Serial No. 328,805. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. PETERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sioux City, in the county of Voodbury and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hotel-Indicators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has reference to a hotel recorder and indicator, and my aim is to produce a more convenient and desirable device than those hitherto in use.

With this end in view my invention consists in the peculiar features and combination of parts more fully described hereinafter, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front view of my invention; Fig 2 a side View, and Fig. 3 a detail view, of the recording-slide.

The reference-letter a represents a frame, which is provided with a central time-board 1), below which is located a room-check board 0, bearing corresponding room-number plates d. Each plate is provided with a hook e for the reception of a corresponding removable room-check f. An alarm-clock g is secured to the central portion of the board 0 to enable the clerk to observe at a glance the time and number of the room to go to when the alarm is sounded. The central time-board b is surrounded upon the top and sides by a glasscovered space 72 which may be subdivided into suitable compartments 6, so that businesssigns can be placed upon the glass; The back of the frame is provided with a pair of cleats j, which receive a sliding recording-board 76. This board is provided with card-supports Z for the reception of cards m. Upon these cards is placed the name of the guest, the time of arrival, and the first meal taken at the hotel. Above each card-support is placed a number corresponding with the room occupied, so that when the card is removed it will. show that the guest has departed and the room is vacant. In order to facilitate the removal of these cards, a series of vertical grooves o is formed in the face of the slide 70, and these grooves permit the end of the finger to pass behind the card to get a purchase upon it,

The glass-covered space It surrounding the time-board renders the recording-slide k visible from the front, and the slide is made removable for the purpose of inserting or removing cards.

The central time-board is provided with three vertical rows of plates bearing numbers denoting the time of night from one a. m. to nine a. m. at intervals of a quarter of an hour each. Each of these plates is provided with a hooky for the reception of the room-check.

The construction of my device having been set forth, I will now proceed to describe its operation.

When a guest arrives at the hotel, his name, date, and meal commenced with are written upon a card. The slide is then withdrawn and the card placed within the supports Z, located beneath the number of the room assigned him. If he desires to be called at aparticular time in the night, as at 1.30 a. m., the room-check 4, which represents the room occupied, is taken. from the plate d upon the room-board and hung upon the plate marked 1.30 upon the time-board. The alarm-clock g is then set to ring at 1.30 a. m. When the alarm is sounded, the hotel-clerk immediately sees at a glance that the occupant of room 4 is to be called. After this is done and the check restored to its place upon the roomboard below, the alarm-clock is set to ring at the time when the next call is to be made as, for instance, 3.45 a. m., and so on.

The advantages of my invention are that an accurate and quickly-perceptible record may be at all time kept before the clerk of the hotel, thereby avoiding many of the errors and perplexities to which he is usually subjected.

It is evident that my device might be upon the slide, the latter being provided with grooves or depressions in its face, as and for the purpose described.

2. In a hotel-indicator, a time-board provided with a series of plates bearing numbers of the hour, in combination with a room-board having a series of plates bearing room-numbers and arranged to support a removable room-check having a corresponding number to that of the room, whereby the check may be transferred from the room-plate to the time-plate to denote the time at which a guest is to be called, in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described;

3. The combination, in a hotel-indicator, of a frame provided with a central time-board having plates bearin g numbers indicating the CHARLES S. PETERS.

Witnesses:

ALFRED O. STRONG, HERBERT T. TIFFANY. 

